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#1: Taverton High Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:50 pm
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I am seriously considering the following drabble: Joey is invited to do a speech day at Taverton High.

Given that she was twelve when she left, would she have only spent one year there? Basically at what age would you have started a "High" School? Would it be eleven?

I shall of course bear in mind that she was frequently ill, and that School at The Chalet is set around April.

(Grizel, Mary Burnett and Rosalie Dene were at Taverton High too?)

Wink

#2: Author: Caroline, Location: Manchester

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:27 am
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I think she would have spent about a year and a half there - leaving aged 12 1/2 at the Easter of her second year.

When we find out Rosalie and Mary are coming to the CS (School at p100 ish), Jo says that Mary was in the year below her at the High - and, yes, OK, Mary's age later changes, but the point being for Jo to say anyone was in the year below her, she would have to spent at least some time in the second form.

I think high schools were 11-18 - pretty much the same as secondary school now, with a fairly 'conventional' year structure - first form to sixth form, with upper and lower sixths.

Grizel, Mary and Rosalie is about right. Kitty and Peggy Burnett would have been too young.

Caroline.

#3: Author: JayB, Location: SE England

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:30 am
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Caroline wrote:

I think she would have spent about a year and a half there - leaving aged 12 1/2 at the Easter of her second year.

But Joey would have been only eleven in the September before School At, turning twelve in November. So if the High School was for 11-18 yr olds, as the present day system, she should have only been in her first year - part way through her second term when School At opens in March.

Jay B.

#4: Author: Ally, Location: The land of the fording oxes

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:56 am
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I'm sure that the other High School's BD depicted (St Peter's High in the early La Rochelle books for example) had kindergartens attached, so Joey's school could have easily had a similar arrangement. I seem to remember Jose Atherton (she was the youngest of the Athertons I think) attending this part of the school when she was about 8 or so.

#5: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:18 pm
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Ally is right. Lots of High Schools did have Junior Schools attached. At 11, the children would take the scholarship exam like children from elementary schools - if they passed, the county paid their fees and if not, they might get a scholarship from the school or their parents would carry on paying. I may be wrong about the next part of the system for the period, but in the 40's and later, these were known as Grant Aided Schools and so agreed to take a certain number of children from elementary schools who passed the scholarship, in return for a grant.

Our school had it's own entrance exam and if you passed the county scholarship but not the entrance exam, you couldn't go and went to a County High School.

#6: Author: jennifer, Location: Taiwan

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:03 pm
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Found the reference - in Jo Returns

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she had had four years at the girls' high school in Taverton in Devonshire, where the early part of her existence had been spent.

So she was at school from about almost 8 years old to almost 12 before going to Austria.

The Barbours - Mercy and Faith, were also from Taverton, but a few years younger, as were the Trevanions, Stacie's relatives.

#7: Author: Phil, Location: London UK

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:56 pm
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Found the reference - in Jo Returns

Hurrah! Thank you so much every body! Razz

(Note to self: look on ebay and abebooks.com for a hardback of Jo Returns to the CS)

#8: Author: Caroline, Location: Manchester

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:51 am
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JayB wrote:

Caroline wrote:

I think she would have spent about a year and a half there - leaving aged 12 1/2 at the Easter of her second year.

D'oh - you are right, of course!

Caroline.

#9: Author: Rosy-Jess, Location: Gloucestershire-London-Aberystwyth

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:08 am
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jennifer wrote:

Found the reference - in Jo Returns

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she had had four years at the girls' high school in Taverton in Devonshire, where the early part of her existence had been spent.

So she was at school from about almost 8 years old to almost 12 before going to Austria.

It would make sense if there was a prep-school attached. They take 7-13 roughly, afaik. and so 12 might have been a good point at which to change schools?

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